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...conflict have taken a firmly radical turn. Rebel leaders go beyond criticizing the West's failure to denounce Russia's brutal tactics in Chechnya; they increasingly reject Western values based, they say, on "materialism and atheism." A "discussion document" circulating among Chechen guerrillas singles out Afghanistan's Taliban regime as the most theologically consistent modern Islamic state. The Islamist cast of the Nalchik attackers suggests that Russian President Vladimir Putin now faces a growing threat from religious radicals determined to push the fight deeper into Russia. The siege of Nalchik started around 10 a.m. on an ordinary Thursday morning, just...
Blackhawk gunner Sergeant Cory McFadden knows the border with Pakistan as a place where you are likely to get shot at. Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters are hidden in the mountains below, often armed with armor-piercing rounds that can penetrate the skin of his helicopter. But last Monday night, McFadden and his crew joined a small aerial armada of U.S. choppers heading towards this dangerous borderland-without guns...
...mission comes at a difficult time for U.S. commanders in Afghanistan: Pakistan needs American choppers for rescue work, but the war against the Taliban is back on the boil and U.S. casualties are mounting. So the same choppers are needed for combat missions back in Afghanistan, too. Says one Kabul-based U.S. official, "We've sliced away some of our capacity in Afghanistan. So far, it hasn't impeded the war on terror-but it will if it goes past another ten days...
...ARRESTED. ABDUL LATIF HAKIMI, spokesman for Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime; in Quetta, Pakistan. Boastful but possessing no combat experience, Hakimi frequently contacted reporters to issue statements from Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and to make often-unsubstantiated claims of Taliban successes against U.S. forces. The Afghan government, which welcomed Hakimi's arrest and requested his extradition, has long complained that Taliban leaders have been able to find sanctuary in Pakistan...
...Afghanistan? In a rare gesture of friendship between the two hostile nations, India said it would send rescue workers to help Pakistan, if requested. Meanwhile, the helicopters Musharraf dispatched to help victims of the earthquake were diverted from duty scouring the Afghan-Pakistan border for al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters, one Islamabad official said. Reporters who wanted to travel to the ravaged regions were told they could be flown into the worst hit areas of Uri but were unlikely to be brought back immediately as the military helicopters were pressed into service mainly to bring the injured in for treatment...